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    KOUFAX0000 DSP Legend Damned

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    Yes. Hence the term over rated.
     
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    do... do you know what overrated means?
     
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    KOUFAX0000 DSP Legend Damned

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    I... I do
     
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    MLB's Top Ten outfielders (in no particular order)

    The Pig
    Cargo
    Pence...ugh
    Trout
    Cutch
    Brantley
    Jones
    Cespedes
    Yelich
    Stanton
    Span
     
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    fwiw...

    Mets Monitoring Dodgers, Rockies In Search For Lefty Relief
    By Steve Adams [March 26, 2015 at 4:46pm CDT]

    4:46pm: The Mets are also intrigued by Rockies left-hander Rex Brothers, writes Adam Rubin of ESPN New York. A team official told Rubin at the Winter Meetings that Brothers was of interest to the Amazins, and that interest is apparently still alive. The 27-year-old Brothers will earn $1.4MM this year after a down season in 2014. Last year, he struggled to a 5.59 ERA as his control spiked and he posted a career-worst 6.2 BB/9 rate.

    Brothers was excellent, however, from 2011-13, especially when considering his home park. In that time, he notched a 2.82 ERA with 11.2 K/9 and 4.8 BB/9 out of the Colorado ‘pen. He’s had a good Spring Training thus far and is under team control through 2017. Brothers has a career 2.40 ERA on the road compared to a 4.51 mark at Coors Field.

    As Rubin notes, the Rox also have southpaw Boone Logan, though his contract seems especially prohibitive for the Mets; Logan is owed $5.5MM this year and $6.25MM in 2016.

    4:01pm: The Mets are “keeping an eye on” three Dodgers left-handed relief options — J.P. Howell, Paco Rodriguez and Adam Liberatore — in case any of the three become available, reports Mark Saxon of ESPN Los Angeles (via Twitter).

    The Mets have a known need for a bullpen lefty following Josh Edgin‘s Tommy John surgery and have been connected to Baltimore’s Brian Matusz on multiple occasions this spring. Of course, Matusz sounds to be more available than any of the three Dodger southpaws, based on Saxon’s wording.

    Howell would seem to have a spot in the Dodgers’ bullpen locked down, as the former Ray has posted a 2.19 ERA over the past two seasons with Los Angeles and is entering the second season of a two-year, $11.25MM contract signed following a strong first year with the Dodgers. Besides that fact, Howell is slated to earn $4MM this season, and the Mets reportedly aren’t even comfortable with Matusz’s $3.2MM salary, so it’s hard to envision a great fit with Howell.

    Rodriguez and Liberatore, however, could conceivably be more available, and neither would cost much more than the Major League minimum in terms of salary. Rodriguez, 23, was the Dodgers’ second-round pick in 2012 and reached the Majors that same season. However, despite a strong 2013 followup to his brief 2012 cameo, (2.32 ERA, 10.4 K/9, 3.1 BB/9), Rodriguez saw just 14 regular-season innings with the Dodgers last year. Rodriguez struggled to a 4.40 ERA in Triple-A’s hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League in 2014 and was slowed by a strained shoulder muscle as well. With just one year, 120 days of MLB service time, Rodriguez likely wouldn’t be arbitration eligible for another two years, making him an understandably appealing target.

    It’s unclear how the new front office views Rodriguez, but the old regime clearly had some concerns over his readiness. The former front office invested significantly in free agent relievers last winter (including Brian Wilson and Chris Perez — neither of whom panned out) and quickly optioned Rodriguez to Triple-A after a rough patch in late April. New president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, GM Farhan Zaidi and VP Josh Byrnes may have more faith in Rodriguez and be reluctant to part with him.

    As for Liberatore, the Dodgers only acquired him this offseason. The 27-year-old had previously been with the Rays, so it was hardly surprising to see Friedman pull both Liberatore and Joel Peralta from the Rays organization in a trade with his former colleagues. Liberatore is older for a prospect, but he has exceptional numbers at the Triple-A level, where he’s worked to a 2.40 ERA in 146 1/3 innings. His most impressive work came in 2014, when he worked to a 1.66 ERA with 11.9 K/9 and 2.1 BB/9 in 65 innings.

    For what it’s worth, both Liberatore and Rodriguez have had excellent Spring Training campaigns, combining for 13 innings of scoreless relief. That likely doesn’t mean much, and considering the fact that both have Minor League options remaining, there’s no pressure for the Dodgers to move either, even if they don’t break camp in the bullpen. Also to be considered is the fact that relief help is a need for the Dodgers themselves, particularly in the wake of an injury to closer Kenley Jansen that may only sideline him through mid-April but could leave him on the shelf into mid-May. The Dodgers have a number of contracts they’d like to shed (e.g. Alex Guerrero, Erisbel Arruebarrena) but the Mets would hardly seem to be in a financial position to sweeten the pot by taking on some salary in a trade.​
     
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    you're reaching on a few of those guys

    and where's Carlos Gomez? unless that's " Cargo " to you..Cargo is the guy in Colorado for me.

    i'll take Heyward over few of those fellas.

    no Joey Bats either.
     
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    shout out to Alex Gordon as well.

    get the sneaky suspicion that Joc Pederson will end up putting Yelich in a headlock
     
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    Yeah, just take Yelich, Cargo, Cespedes, and maybe Span out of there and put in Gomez, Heyward/Gordon, and Bautista. Probably Braun also.
     
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    I give all of your choices props. Point is. Werth is NOT a top ten OF.
     
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    I would have included Braun but he's a known Jewcer so fkuck him.
     
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    Idk how interested the Dodgers would be in that, can only see it happening if Mets offer something great. It's not like the Dodgers have a great strength at left handed relievers. Shit, last year we basically only used Howell! And Paco, Liberatore have options so not like we needs get rid of them

    Probably more of the Mets wanting then the Dodgers giving, but hey, ya never know maybe they wanna overpay
     
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    Oh Pappy!! Thank you for using the favorite line of all liars and users. You are guilty!

    FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, in a first-person essay on The Players' Tribune website, reiterated in strong terms that he never has "knowingly used steroids" and said "hell yes" he belongs in the Hall of Fame.


    "Let me tell you something. Say whatever you want about me -- love me, hate me," Ortiz wrote. "But I'm no bulls------. I never knowingly took any steroids. If I tested positive for anything, it was for something in pills I bought at the damn mall. If you think that ruins everything I have done in this game, there is nothing I can say to convince you different.''


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    Playing dumb makes you guilty. And what kind of humble ball player no matter what kind of career he's had actually says "he belongs in the Hall Of Fame"?


    Another ego driven liar.

    FU Juicer.
     
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    High profile athletes go to the mall for "pillz" apperantly.
     
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    Because of age, I'd trade howell before the other two.
     
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    Kershaw says Giants are the team to beat
    by Matthew Moreno | Dodgers Nation — 2 hours ago

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    The rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants is one that is decades old and full of high and low points for both teams.

    The Dodgers have won the National League West division title the last two seasons, including clinching with a win against the Giants in 2014. However, the Giants have won the World Series three out of the last five seasons; the Dodgers haven’t so much reached the Fall Classic since winning it in 1988.

    While the two teams have a storied rivalry, the So. Cal-Nor. Cal feud can take a back seat dependent on which Dodgers fan is being asked who they view as the biggest rival. Brushes with the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres has resulted in both franchises drawing the ire of Dodgers fans.

    Being eliminated by the St. Louis Cardinals in back-to-back postseasons has also placed the Red Birds in the crosshairs of some fans — with Yasiel Puig among them. The success and proximity of the Los Angeles of Anaheim has led to some fans, specifically younger generations, identifying them as the biggest rival.

    For Clayton Kershaw, the Giants reign supreme as the Dodgers’ biggest threat to success, evident by his comments in a recent interview with Fox Sports 1:

    "It's a great division. The Giants are obviously really good, they've won three of the last five so that's kind of the team to beat. What the Padres have done, the Rockies are getting healthy, the Diamondbacks made a lot of changes, it's a great division. Obviously, that’s the most important step, to get out of our division and this year is going to be a tough challenge for us."

    Kershaw started the would-be clinching game against the Giants last year and though he wasn’t particularly sharp — by his standards — he had 11 strikeouts in eight innings while limiting the Giants to one run on seven hits.

    Fueling his MVP Award, Kershaw also added a game-tying, two-out RBI triple in the fifth inning of his MLB-best 21st win. He finished the season 3-0 with a 1.69 ERA and 0.81 WHIP in four starts against the Giants in 2014, but was home watching while they celebrated another World Series title.

    Despite ultimately falling short last season, Kershaw and the Dodgers have been selected to run away with the division title in 2015 and are among the favorites to reach and win the World Series.
     
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    GNC?
     
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